Chemical Restraint Is Still Used in Nursing Homes

Human Rights Watch stated today that the Australian government should ban the use of chemical restraints in nursing homes to regulate the conduct of elderly persons with dementia. The Royal Commission on Aged Care Quality and Safety delivered its final report one year ago, in March 2021, advocati...

ARMED FORCES OF PORTUGAL HELPED NURSING HOMES TO FIGHT AGAINST THE COVID-19

Highlights:

• The armed forces of Portugal will be helping the nursing homes for battling the novel corona virus
• Diana Correia, who looks for the nursing home, gets stunned as she recalls that 24 of the 55 of the residents of her nursing home

GOVERNMENT SHIFTS GAZE TO TERMINALLY ILL AND ELDERLY COVID-19 PATIENTS REDUCING MORTALITY RATES

• The government has shifted gaze from COVID-19 quarantine policies of preventing new cases to lowering death rates, the health authorities said Monday.
• As the country has changed ideologies by coexisting with the coronavirus, government officials are looking at management of the...

SOUTH KOREA LET UP ANTIVIRUS MEASURES REGISTERING 88 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES

• South Korea registered 88 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, as health authorities remain on red alert over batches of infections at senior care homes and the upcoming Halloween weekend expected to crowd nightlife spots.
• Of the cases, 72 cases were locally transmitted and 16 imported ...

SECOND WAVE OF CORONA VIRUS HITS NURSING HOMES THE MOST

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• Nursing homes have been hit the hardest in terms of infection rates and fatalities
• The second surge is making things worse for these establishments

Nursing homes have always been vulnerable to the covid19 infections. When the pandemic hit...

48% OF ILLINOIS’S COVID19 DEATHS ARE FROM NURSING HOMES

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• Illinois death and infection rates in nursing homes spike this week
• Accounted for infected covid19 cases at 11,437 and deaths at 1,553

Nursing outbreaks of coronavirus has claimed many lives and remains one of the focus areas for containm...

LYON: NURSING HOMES IN THE REGION REPORT MORE THAN 1,000 DEATHS

Highlights

• The city of Lyon is preparing itself for deconfinement, which is scheduled after May 11

• Highest number of deaths are reported from Nursing homes in the Rhone department

• Till date, total 2,307 people had died from the coronavirus

FLORIDA: ‘GOD’S WAITING ROOM' JOKE BY GOV. DeSANTIS SPARKS CONTROVERSY

Highlights

• At present, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has gone beyond 30,000

• The statement given by Governor DeSantis hasn’t gone well with majority of people

• Around 4.46 million people in Florida are above age of 65

COVID-19 KILLING ELDERS & CAREGIVERS IN NURSING HOMES

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• Nursing homes house elders who are most fatally prone to the virus 
• Lack of testing in these facilities is a big miss

It is a known fact that coronavirus now affects people of all the ages including infants. Yet it is the old o...